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February 15th 2009

Published: February 15th 2009

As usual, I couldn't decide how I could further narrow down the collection of photos to illustrate the latest blog... so here's some more, if you're interested...

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Elizabeth Weir

Weir travels

I decided in early 2006 that I'd had enough of the London rat-race and the career thing - at least, for the time being - and that I'd like to take some time out: "me time", as it were; time to do at least some of the things that I'd been thinking about doing over the last few years but hadn't been able to fit in around work and client demands. So here I am: backpack to the ready (to be honest, it had never really been put away after my '93-'94 round-the-world trip), and a gazillion ideas about how to fill the next xx months..... (And, no, I've no idea when I'll go back to the "real" worl... full info

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camouflaged in the path

a horned adder in Hobatere's campsite

scruffy custodian

mangy, collared black-backed jackal in the Skeleton Coast Park

waiting to toast the new year...

who's looking at whom?

giraffe at Hobatere Game Reserve

ancient landscape

welwitschia which is a thousand or more years old in gravel plains near the Skeleton Coast

mending a tyre is a family business

WKM-13

sociable weavers busy at the communal nest

kori bustards

Etosha pan with water in it

springbok enjoying the new greenery

leopard tortoise

centipede sunbathing

(Treat with caution - this guy's poisonous)

ominous silhouettes

white-backed vultures at Hobatere Game Reserve

the butt shot again

mountain zebra at Hobatere Game Reserve

out with the family

ostrich parents and brood

watching the storm come in

shipwreck in the Skeleton Coast Park

Cape fur seal

Cape fur seal pup

a Damara hornbill

(a recently-identified subspecies of the redbilled hornbill)

16th February 2009

Rhonda
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superb photos
Elizabeth - don't hesitate to keep adding more pics. We LOVE seeing them; the more the better. Love, RnR

19th February 2009

Lynn
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Fab photos!
These pictures are just terrific. I especially love the one of the ostrich family, how many little ones did they have! Keep taking and posting!!!

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